Rethinking Europe : : war and peace in the early modern German lands / / edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams, Sigrun Haude, Christian Schneider.

• Superior document: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World; volume71
• TeilnehmendeR: Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942-; Haude, Sigrun, 1959-; Schneider, Christian, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World; volume71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages)

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Tables -- Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands / Sigrun Haude -- Within the War -- Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany / B. Ann Tlusty -- Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century / Cornelia Niekus Moore -- A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community / Lynne Tatlock -- Event and Emplotment: “Narrativizing” the Battle of Lützen / Nicolas Detering -- Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Years’ War / Evan B. Johnson -- Negotiating the Thirty Years’ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598–1659) and Her Survival Strategies / Jill Bepler -- Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubens’ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria / Susan Maxwell -- War and Periphery -- “Make Peace, Not War”: an Anti-propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucus’ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta / Tamar Cholcman -- Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital / Tobias P. Graf -- “The Imminent Danger of the Turks”: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670–1672) / Georg B. Michels -- Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia / Martin Christ -- Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Years’ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach / Sara Smart -- Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century / Emma Hagström Molin -- Westphalian Peace and Post-War -- Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg / Alexander J. Fisher -- Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649 / Mara R. Wade -- State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession / Stephan Sander-Faes -- Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Years’ War Villages / Marc R. Forster -- Back Matter -- Index.